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5 Korona POW Camp; Dunaszerdahely
| Issuer | Cs. és Kir. Hadifogoly-Tábor Dunaszerdahely (K.u.K. Kriegsgefangenenlager Dunaszerdahely) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian Krone (1892-1918) |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-pink guilloche underprint matching the obverse covers the field. Series and number are printed in two separate panels at top. A dark blue bordered panel at centre carries 'FÜNF KRONEN' in large bold letters, below the camp title in blue letterpress. Two red circular seals with the imperial double-eagle flank the lower area, above two manuscript signatures; the printer's imprint 'GLOBUS BUDAPEST' appears at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 K.u.K. KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER 5 DUNASZERDAHELY FÜNF KRONEN WELCHER BETRAG EINEN TEIL DES BEIM LAGERKOMMANDO ERLIEGENDEN GUTHABENS DER KRIEGSGEFANGENEN BILDET. DUNASZERDAHELY, 15. JANNER 1916. |
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Dunaszerdahely (today Dunajská Streda in Slovakia) housed an Austro-Hungarian prisoner of war camp during the First World War, and like dozens of similar installations across the empire, it issued its own internal currency to prevent prisoners from accumulating coins usable outside the wire. These Lagergeld issues were a deliberate policy of the k.u.k. military administration, standardized enough in concept but always locally produced — Globus in Budapest was a commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which shows in the relatively modest production quality typical of the Hungarian camp issues.
The 5 Korona denomination was the highest commonly encountered in the Dunaszerdahely series, suggesting a degree of trust in internal camp commerce that smaller installations rarely extended.